Cybersecurity Dive August 8, 2025
The U.S. military research agency hopes to foster a new ecosystem of autonomous vulnerability remediation.
LAS VEGAS — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Friday unveiled the winners of a competition to spur the development of artificial intelligence tools designed to autonomously find and fix software vulnerabilities.
Team Atlanta, Trail of Bits and Theori claimed the top three spots in DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge, agency officials said at the DEF CON cybersecurity conference here. They will receive prizes of $4 million, $3 million and $1.5 million, respectively.
All seven finalist teams will open source their AI tools so that the entire world can use them. Four of the tools debuted on Friday, while the remaining three will be released...
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